About the Grey Peacock-Pheasant
The grey peacock-pheasant, also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a large Asian member of the order Galliformes.
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It is a large pheasant, up to 76 cm long and greyish brown with finely spotted green eyespots, an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, white throat, and grey iris, bill and legs. The sexes are rather similar, but the female is smaller, darker and less ornamented than the male. The young resemble the female.
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Where the Grey Peacock-Pheasant lives
When to see the Grey Peacock-Pheasant
Peak activity in March · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Germain's Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron germainiThe bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 centimetres (24 in) long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers.
Mountain Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron inopinatumThe mountain peacock-pheasant, also known as Rothschild's peacock-pheasant or mirror pheasant, is a medium-sized, up to 65 cm long, blackish brown pheasant.
Malayan Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron malacenseIt is one of the shortest-tailed peacock-pheasants.
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